Vestigial

stuart wilson
I'd call this progressive hardcore. It's like the heavier bits of The Ocean. With a keen sense of dynamics and songs that never overstay their welcome, it has an edge that few can match...
Favorite track: Butcher Birds.

warren barton
This is truly a stunning album,its heaviness is so remarkable I can't stop listening to it.Vestigial is so addictive just like a good novel I just can't put it down.
Favorite track: Gods of Ruin.

about

VESTIGIAL contains several repeated characters throughout the album; the JUDAS STEER , the LOCUST CHRIST and GODS OF RUIN. These are anti heroes , the wolves among sheep figuratively. The ghastly Donald Trumps, The Kim Jun Oungs, The extremists and ignorant tyrants of our modern lives. The absurdity of Gun culture and the addiction to technology are also a major curse of the western world we live in.

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A vile, evil, intensive yet very satisfying heavy release, one that moulds elements of the heavy music giants such as Converge, Lamb Of God, and Meshuggah to create a familiar but damned solid record overall. ‘Vestigial’ is Lo!’s strongest offering to date, from front to back. Do not sleep on this shit any longer! - Killyourstereo.com

credits

released October 6, 2017

All songs written and produced by Lo!
Recorded at Adversary Studios and Mr Milk Studios by Aaron Warboys and Carl Whitbread
Mixed by Magnus Lindberg
Mastered by Brad Boatright at Audiosiege
Artwork and layout by Carl Whitbread

Thanks to friends and family, all the bands we’ve played with and anyone who has supported us in any way.

they came just after dark - shortly after the sirens wailed you could hear the planes grinding overhead - in my room, with its black curtains drawn across the windows - you could feel the shake from the guns - the motors seemed to grind rather than roar - and to have an angry pulsation - like a bee buzzing in blind fury - as we stepped out onto the balcony a vast inner excitement came over all of us - an excitement that had neither fear nor horror in it - because it was too full of awe - the whole horizon of a city lined with great fires - scores of them - perhaps hundreds - there was something inspiring just in the awful savagery of it - into the dark shadowed spaces below us - while we watched - whole batches of incendiary bombs fell - then quickly simmered down to pin points of dazzling white - burning ferociously - all around below were the shadows - the dark shadows of buildings and bridges that formed the base of this dreadful masterpiece - these things all went together to make the most hateful - most beautiful single scene i have ever known - (correspondence of the london blitz by ernie pyle)

to fillet through our hides to savour each of our crafted lies - you’d prefer to wield the blunt knife revel in this fear you smear - inhuman nature - melt you down to mend my rotten crown - who’s smiling now - your veneer of god - segregate us apes we - ignore our dna - now clamber over our family skeletons - hail the judas steer - hail our psychopomp - he’d love to leads us to the axe - melt you down to mend my rotten crown - who’s smiling now - your veneer of god - spread my wings to flee your sufferings - who’s smiling now - your veneer of god - we all shit seed choke - snakes among us - you’ve always been here - you never loved us our judas steer - snakes among us - you’ve always been here - you never loved us our judas steer - we’d love you to lead us to the axe - we’d love you to lead us to the axe

Track Name: Bestial Beginnings

a muse not worth truth - kept in the cage of my chest - no respite in the flame - no warmth in the breath - this longage of life - chains amass i suffer - this skin tarnished and worn - it’s just more of the same - this longage of life - chains amass i suffer - this skin tarnished and worn - it’s just more of the same - and we’ll fester forever - the battered spouse and her vile christ - cake on the mask comply - the battered spouse and her vile christ

Track Name: The Worms Lament

our past forever clings - fresh paint on old sins - we are damned men laughing - we are damned men laughing - pack us well no room to fall - we stand in death erect loyal - war monger first world snake - present false flesh to rake - so the worms cry out “inject us with fear” - so the worms cry out “hand me a gun” - raise a glass - stave off the horror - flesh drum beats on - gods of ruin - the grand deceiver spoke - "addicts for terror!" - the grand deceiever spoke - "sheep for heaven!" - raise a glass - stave off the horror - flesh drum beats on - gods of ruin - the grand deceiver spoke - "addicts for terror!" - the grand deceiever spoke - "sheep for heaven!” - our past forever clings - fresh paint on old sins - we are damned men laughing - we are damned men laughing - our past forever clings - fresh paint on old sins - we are damned men laughing - we are damned men laughing - so the worms cry out “inject us with fear” - we the worms cry out “beat our flesh drums" - the grand deceiver spoke - "addicts for terror!" - the grand deceiever spoke